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Salustios — Divine Man of Cynicism in Late Antiquity Divine Men and Women in the History and Society of Late Hellenism Cracow 2013 Andrzej Iwo Szoka Jagiellonian University SALUSTIOS — Divine Man of CYNICISM IN LATE ANTIQUITY In the reconstructed Philosophical History of Damacius, which is our main source of repainting the circle of late platonic philosophers and their world in the 5th and early 6th century, the author mentioned Salustios of Emesa. In a few places Damas‑ cius gave this person the name of Cynic. He said: “His [Salustios’] philosophy was along the lines of Cynicism” (kunikèteron dќ ™filosТfei), and in another passage: “As a Cynic philosopher Salustios (Ὁ Saloύstioj kun…zwn) did not follow the well ‑trodden path of philosophy, but the one made jagged through criticism and abuse and especially through toil in the service of virtue1. According to his opinion, in the modern historiography Salustios is called the last Cynic philosopher of the antiquity, the last heir of philosophy and spiritual movement which was founded by the famous Diogenes of Sinope in the fourth century BC. He was not only the last one, but also the only Cynic philosopher known by name after 4th century who is described by sources. In the times of the Roman Empire cynicism was a vital philosophy, but also it be‑ came the widespread social movement which Giovanni Reale named the Phenomena of the Masses2. On the one hand, we have the Cynicism of well ‑educated philosophers like Demetrius — a friend of Seneca, or Dio of Prusa. They both adopted some as‑ pects of Cynic philosophy (toil and suffering as the way to virtue, ignoring popular opinion, the nature is better than civilization, animal’s life is an example for man). On the other hand, the name of Cynics was ascribed to low ‑status people who were often anonymous in the sources. They wore the characteristic Cynic costume (a staff, dirty and short cloak, a begging wallet and long hair) which meant entering the way of Cynic philosophy. By those attributes the Cynics imitated Heracles — the ideal 1 Damascius, The Philosophical History, 66 A–B, ed. and trans. P. Athanassiadi, Athens 1999. 2 A History of Ancient Philosophy: The schools of the Imperial Age, New York 1990, p. 159. 114 Andrzej Iwo Szoka hero whose earthly life was an exemplar for every one of them3. They learned by heart a few anecdotes (cre‹ai) about famous ancient Cynics, especially Diogenes of Sinope, which they repeated among the people playing the roles of real philosophers to gain livelihood. Of course, those cynical pseudo‑philosophers were criticized by real philosophers and intellectuals of second century like Epictetus, Juvenal, Mar‑ tial, Lucian, Aelius Aristides4. In fourth century the similar arguments repeated the emperor ‑philosopher Julian in his two writings: The Uneducated Cynics and To the Cynic Heracleios, in which he also compared the Cynics to the Christians monks, and gave both groups this same name — ўpotakt‹tai (renouncers)5. However, the 4th century was the last when the Cynics appeared many times in the texts, and we know the names of a few of them. One of them was Maximos Heron of Alexandria, usurper bishop of Constantinople, who was a Christian but did not abandon the cynic costume and way of life6. At that time, Cynicism was losing popularity in favor of Christianity, but there appeared some “hybrids” like Maximos or other begging monks wandering from town to town. Since the beginning of 5th century we have very few references about still ‑acting Cynics. Before Salustios, St. Augustine talked about the meeting of Cynics in De Civitate Dei, and in times of our philosopher, in a treatise entitled De statu animae of Claudianus Mamertus where the Cynics and Epicureans were criticized for their materialism, and they were mentioned as contemporaries with the author (nostri saeculi)7. However, what must be also said is that in the late 4th and in 5th centuries the circle of non ‑Christian intellectuals were positively disposed to Cynicism. For example, Eunapios of Sardis appreciated the Cynic studies in the field of ethics8. The Cynic philosophers also appeared among the pagan aristocracy in Rome. Quintus Aurelius Symmachus called the Cynic Asclepiades a holy man, and another Cynic — Horus the Egyptian, his friend. According to The Saturnalia of Macrobius, Horus (a former Olympic champion in boxing who turned to the Cynic philosophy) was a guest in 3 For this aspect of Cynic ideology see: R. Höistad, Cynic Hero and Cynic King. Studies in the Cynic Conception of Man, Uppsala 1948, pp. 23–73. 4 R. Dudley, A History of Cynicism — From Diogenes to the Sixth Century A.D., London 1937, pp. 144–145; M‑O. Goulet‑Cazé, Introduction [in:] The Cynics The Cynic Movement in Antiquity and Its Legacy, R.B. Branham and Goulet ‑Cazé (eds.), Berkeley and Los Angeles and London 1996, p. 19. Epictetus, praises the rules of Cynic philosophy but he criticizes the contemporary begging and mocking Cynics; Discourses, III, 22, 50–52, ed. W.A. Oldfather, vol. II, Cambridge, MA and London 1959. 5 Julian the Apostate, To the Uneducated Cynics (Or. VI (IX)) and To the Cynic Heracleios (Or. VII), [in:] The Works of Emperor Julian, vol. II, ed. W.C. Wright, Cambridge, MA and London 2002. The passage about Cynic and Galilaeans (ўpotakt‹tai), Or. VII, 224B. 6 On Maximos Cynic garb see: Gregory of Nazianzus, Or. XXV, 2, ed. C. Moreschini, Mila‑ no 2002; Damasus, Epistolae, V and VI, Patrologia Latina, ed. J.P. Migne, vol. XIII, 365A–367A; 369A–370A, Paris 1845; Dudley, op. cit., pp. 203–206. 7 St. Augustine, City of God, xiv, 20, ed. P. Levine, vol. IV, Cambridge, MA and London 1966. According to Augustine, the Cynics of his days are less shameless than their predecessors. Claudianus Mamertus, De Statu Animae Libri Tres, II, 9, 2, Patrologia Latina, ed. Migne, vol. LIII, 751D, Paris 1865. 8 Eunapius, The Lives of the Sophists, 455, ed. W.C.Wright, Cambridge, MA and London 1952. Salustios — Divine Man of Cynicism in Late Antiquity 115 the house of Vettius Agorius Praetextatus, the leader of pagan aristocracy where he lectured on the native Egyptian religion9. Those late Cynics differed in their philoso‑ phy from their predecessors. Diogenes of Sinope was accused of not believing in the gods, Oenomaus of Gadara wrote a treatise against oracles — Detectio Praestigia- torum10. Marcus Aurelius in Meditations thanked his teacher Diognetos the Cynic that he learned him: “not to give credence to the statements of miracle ‑mongers and wizards about incantations and the exorcizing of daemons, and such‑like marvels”11. The Cynics of late antiquity were more interested in mystic matters and they were strongly devoted to gods. The Cynic Asclepiades walked everywhere with a statue of his beloved goddess Astarte, Horus studied the bloodless rituals of the native Egyptian religion. Finally, our last Cynic — Salustios was presented as a fortune‑ ‑teller, a mysterious person and divine man. In this field the Cynics approached the philosophers of the late Platonism. Salustios, like Damascius himself, came from Syria. His hometown was Emesa which was the city of his mother — Theocleia. His father, Basilides, came also from Syria, but from some other uncertain place. He was probably born around 430, be‑ cause in 70s his philosophical career was at the peak. He was still alive in the first decades of the 6th century since Simplicius, who was born about 490, considered him as a contemporary person. His family was probably well ‑off since he opened his career trying to become a lawyer and studied legal oration under the sophist Eunoios. Then, for the first time he changed the direction of his studies, abandon‑ ing the law career for sophistry. He was interested in old attic speeches, especially of Demosthenes whose all public orations he learned by heart. Young Salustios left Eunoios’s rhetorical courses which he considered unsatisfactory for him. He went to Alexandria, probably on his first journey, where he continued the rhetorical studies12. At this point we lose sight of Salustios. We do not know when he changed his way of life again and became a philosopher. It happened when he was in Alexandria for the first time or a few years later. This turn was similar to that of Dio of Prusa who was first a sophist and orator and then became a wandering philosopher. However, that turn was forced by Dio’s exile during the reign of Domitian. Moreover, Cyni‑ cism was a much more widespread philosophy in the epoch of Dio13. But even in times of Salustios we have other examples of such transformations. For example, Proclus learned the legal profession before he began studying philosophy14. Probably, 9 Macrobius, Saturnalia, I, 7; I,15; I, 16, III, 13; VII, 7; VII, 13, ed. Fr. Eyssenhardt, Leipzig 1893. Libanios of Antioch tells about Horus’ boxing career in his two letters, 1278; 1279 [in:] Libanii Op- era, vols. XI, ed. R. Foerster, Leipzig 1922. 10 The fragments are preserved in Praeparatio Evangelica of Eusebius of Cesarea, V, 18–36; VI, 7, Fragmenta Philosophorum Graecorum, vol. II, F.W.A. Mullach (ed.), Paris 1867, pp. 359–385. 11 Marcus Aurelius, The communings with himself, I, 6, ed. and trans. C.R. Haines, Cambridge, MA and London 1953. 12 Damascius, 60. 13 C.P. Jones, The Roman world of Dio Chrysostom, Cambridge, MA 1978, p. 49; Dio abandoned Cynic way of life after exile. 14 Marinus, The Life of Proclus or Concerning Happiness, 8, ed. H.D. Saffrey, A–P. Segonds, C. Luna, Paris 2001. 116 Andrzej Iwo Szoka Salustios met the late platonic philosophers for the first time in Alexandria, but surely then he got interested in divination, art which was always lively in Egypt.
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